![]() ![]() While staying at the hunting lodge, the King and his guests would tease Gwyn for sleeping late and for not taking part in the hunting. King Charles II gave Bestwood Park to his mistress Nell Gwyn and their son. The mine was closed in 1967, and the country park was established in 1973. He also demolished the original medieval hunting lodge and had designer Samuel Sanders Teulon build a new lodge. ![]() The mine became the world's first to produce one million tonnes of coal in a single year. In the Victorian era, owner William Beauclerk made a significant impact on the park when he established the Bestwood Coal and Iron Company to mine coal at Bestwood colliery. Thereafter, land was sold in parcels and in the early 19th century there were thirteen farms in the park. He set the boundaries to the park and granted it to Gwyn and their illegitimate son Charles Beauclerk, the 1st Duke of St Albans. In the 17th century, King Charles II was known to visit the park with his mistress, Nell Gwyn. ![]() In the Middle Ages, Bestwood Country Park was a hunting estate in Sherwood Forest owned by the Crown, and used by the landed gentry and monarchs visiting Nottingham. Charles II, portrait by John Michael Wright ![]()
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